Ask HN: How can a college student quickly launch a mobile startup?

[lacero]

I'm looking for guidance from the community on building the backend for an android app. Do you know of any thorough books/tutorials that include code examples of how to build a Web Service that would be used as the back-end of an Android app? I would be particularly interested code advice about security and crud functionality.

[throw471474]

You have a few options.

1. Phonegap.

2. UIWebView for iOS and android.webkit.WebView for Android.

3. Sencha. etc...

It shouldn't take that long to do this.

[lacero]

I have a website built with ruby on rails which I was hoping could be converted to a webservice. I would really like to use Ruby on Rails so that the website can be used as an html front end and webserive simultaneously (if this is good practice).

I'll take a look a phonegap. That name seems to be popping up a lot in google searches.

[davidsmith8900]

- 1. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/213658/two-or...

2. http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/06/adding-backen...

3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8451868/adding-a-database...

4. http://jatin4rise.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/part-2-calling-a-...

5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11396549/web-app-engine-g...